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  About the Kennedy Center: Welcome
President Kennedy’s words resonate more strongly than ever for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the 21st century.
The Kennedy Center, located on 17 acres overlooking the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., is America’s living memorial to President Kennedy as well as the nation’s busiest arts facility, presenting more than 3,000 performances each year.
The Kennedy Center presents annual festivals celebrating cities, countries and regions of the world: the San Francisco and Texas festivals; France Danse; Festival Australia; the Arts of Japan; the Kennedy Center African Odyssey; Art of the State: Israel at 50; Island: Arts from Ireland; and UK/KC, celebrating the arts of the United Kingdom.
www.kennedy-center.org /about/welcome.html   (955 words)

  
  John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President on January 20, 1961.
President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963 at 12:30 pm CST while on a political trip through Texas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_F._Kennedy   (4549 words)

  
 The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project Encyclopedia: John Kennedy
The 1960 presidential campaign, which pitted Kennedy against Richard Nixon, proved to be one of the closest elections in U.S. history, one in which Martin Luther King, Jr.
As Kennedy's proposed legislation stalled in Congress, King and other civil rights leaders pressured the president for more federal action, continuing to organize the March on Washington, which was scheduled for late August.
Kennedy's civil rights legislation continued to be heavily contested in Congress and remained stalled in the House of Representatives when Kennedy was assassinated on 22 November 1963.
www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/enc_JFK.htm   (623 words)

  
 Assassination of President Kennedy -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
President Kennedy visited NASA just weeks before his assassination and he was about to reveal the lunacy of NASA's moon landings.
Kennedy was a Roman Catholic and NOT a Jesuit.
President Kennedy is hit by at least two bullets, one through the throat and another blows off the back of his head as his entourage casually watches the cold-blooded murder.
www.reformation.org /kennedy.html   (1602 words)

  
 President John Kennedy: Health & Medical History
Kennedy was well-known by Washington newspaper correspondents to have a "greenish complexion" after the war [12d].
Kennedy's Addisonism was diagnosed in 1947 by a physician in London.
Kennedy's close friend, Senator George Smathers, once remarked "He has the most active libido of any man I have ever known," and a fellow congressman observed that "traveling with him was like traveling with a bull" [17b].
www.doctorzebra.com /prez/g35.htm   (2675 words)

  
 JFK
Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass., on May 29, 1917, a descendant of Irish Catholics who had immigrated to America in the 19th century.
He and his wife, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, had the highest ambitions for their nine children, of whom John was the second son Kennedy graduated from Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., briefly attended Princeton University, and then entered Harvard University in 1936.
In 1946, Kennedy ran successfully for a Boston-based seat in the U.S. House of Representatives; he was reelected in 1948 and 1950.
sc94.ameslab.gov /TOUR/jfk.html   (1196 words)

  
 Biography of John F. Kennedy
Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.
In 1956 Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, and four years later was a first-ballot nominee for President.
Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/jk35.html   (629 words)

  
 John Joseph Kennedy The People's President for 2008   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Kennedy, his friends, staff and volunteers worked tirelessly to get his message out to the American People.
Kennedy was honored to be invited, however, he graciously declined after withdrawing from the race.
Kennedy was honored to be invited, and accepted the invitation, however, the program was canceled due to conflicting schedules of some of the other candidates.
www.johnjosephkennedy.com   (785 words)

  
 Kennedy, J.F., Assasination and Funeral
But perhaps the true measure of the television coverage of the events surrounding the death of President Kennedy is that it marked how intimately the medium and the nation are interwoven in times of crisis.
Close friends, members of the president's family, government officials, and the diplomatic community arrive to pay their respects at the White House, where the president's body is lying in state.
The saturation coverage of the assassination and burial of John F. Kennedy and the startling murder of his alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live television yielded a shared media experience of astonishing unanimity and unmatched impact, an imbedded cultural memory that as years passed seemed to comprise a collective consciousness for a generation.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/K/htmlK/kennedyjf/kennedyjf.htm   (2218 words)

  
 John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Kennedy was graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and joined the navy the next year.
Kennedy brought to the White House the dynamic idea of a “New Frontier” approach in dealing with problems at home, abroad, and in the dimensions of space.
At 46 years of age, Kennedy became the fourth president to be assassinated and the eighth to die in office.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0760619.html   (558 words)

  
 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States
Kennedy, lightly veiled, walked slowly up the huge white steps between her husband's brothers, Robert and Edward, and into the Capitol Rotunda where they knelt for a moment, before the great bronze casket containing the last earthly remains of her husband was carried out into the sunshine.
Kennedy dismounted and, behind the caisson, led the most distinguished company of dignitories ever assembled in the 187 years of this great Republic, come in honour of her young husband.
Kennedy on the White House lawn, led the march part of the way from the White House to the cathedral, lending further international flavour to the occasion and symbolizing the special relationship between Britain and the United States.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jfk.htm   (3731 words)

  
 John F Kennedy - US President
Kennedy proved himself a hero when his boat was rammed by a Japanese destroyer and yet he managed to get his crew to a nearby island.
Kennedy was known for sometimes going against his own party for the good of his Massachusetts constituents.
Kennedy, his wife, and children brought a youthful vitality to the White House and his messages for Americans were often heard around the world.
www.usa-hero.com /kennedy_john.html   (437 words)

  
 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Presidents: John F. Kennedy: Biography
His father Joseph Kennedy was an ambitious politician, who became from son of a pubkeeper to a millionaire.
Kennedy studied at Harvard and after he had finished, he also had to serve in the war.
Kennedy had to deal with a lot of resistance and most of his bills were rejected.
odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/P/jk35/about/bio/jfkbio.htm   (644 words)

  
 CNN.com - Man on the moon: Kennedy speech ignited the dream - May 25, 2001
President Kennedy calls for a mission to send man to the moon during a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961
The president determined that safely landing a man on the moon would be technologically daunting, but it was a goal that the United States could reach before the Soviet Union.
Despite skeptics who thought it could not be accomplished, Kennedy's dream became a reality on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong took a small step for himself and a giant step for humanity, leaving a dusty trail of footprints on the moon.
archives.cnn.com /2001/TECH/space/05/25/kennedy.moon   (562 words)

  
 A Biography of John Fitzgerald Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Kennedy went to the hospital every day to be by his son’s side, and about a month later Jack took a turn for the better and recovered.
President Kennedy was probably the busiest man in the country, but he still found time to laugh and play with his children.
Kennedy was the first President to ask Congress to approve more than twenty two billion dollars for ‘Project Apollo’, which had the goal of landing an American man on the moon before the end of the decade.
www.jfklibrary.org /jfk_biography.html   (3108 words)

  
 The History Place - JFK The President
From the beginning and throughout his presidency, international tensions and political conflicts are a major preoccupation.
In September of 1962 the President delivered a speech at Rice University in which he pledged the U.S. would put a man on the moon "before the end of this decade." Seven years later, July of 1969, Astronaut Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon.
The body of President Kennedy is then taken to Arlington National Cemetery for burial.
www.historyplace.com /kennedy/president.htm   (1520 words)

  
 Online NewsHour & Local PBS Stations: The Kennedy Assassination: 40 Years Later -- November 2003
Forty years have passed since President Kennedy's death, but his assassination continues to be a keen focal point of 20th century history.
Audio of President Kennedy's 'freedom doctrine' speech, which outlined his views on foreign policy in the face of the Cold War.
With the untimely death of Michael Kennedy, historians discuss the string of tragedies that have struck the Kennedy family.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/white_house/kennedy   (618 words)

  
 John Fitzgerald Kennedy | 35th President of the United States
Shortly after his inauguration, Kennedy permitted a group of Cuban exiles to invade Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro.
Kennedy asserted that both the Russians and Americans had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and the arms race.
The Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges—Letters and messages between President Kennedy and Soviet Chairman Nikita Khruschchev between 1961 and 1963.
www2.lucidcafe.com /lucidcafe/library/96may/kennedy.html   (783 words)

  
 Kennedy TV Interviews on Vietnam
President, the only hot war we've got running at the moment is of course the one in Viet-Nam, and we have our difficulties here, quite obviously.
President, in respect to our difficulties in South Viet-Nam, could it be that our Government tends occasionally to get locked into a policy or an attitude and then finds it difficult to alter or shift that policy ?
I think in the case of South Viet Nam we have been dealing with a Government which is in control, has been in control for 10 years.
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/kentv.htm   (1168 words)

  
 John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States.
The election of 1960 had been close, and the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts was eager to gather support for his agenda.
Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom—symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning—signifying renewal, as well as change.
www.bartleby.com /124/pres56.html   (1223 words)

  
 Lasting Questions about the Murder of President Kennedy
In April of 1964, a solution to this dilemma was finally devised—both men were deemed to have been wounded by the same bullet, with Connally suffering a "delayed reaction" to a bullet which broke a rib and shattered a wrist.
Instead, the location of Kennedy's back wound was raised to the back of the neck, and the lead autopsy doctor supplied a drawing of Kennedy's wounds to bless this new location.
What follows is necessarily a personal answer, but one rooted in the base of evidence in the case, and with particular note taken of the amazing series of revelations which came tumbling out of files and interviews in the late 1990s.
history-matters.com /essays/jfkgen/LastingQuestions/Lasting_Questions.htm   (1478 words)

  
 American President
After a short stint as a journalist, Kennedy entered politics, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 and the U.S. Senate from 1953 to 1961.
Kennedy was the youngest person elected U.S. President and the first Roman Catholic to serve in that office.
The promise of this energetic and telegenic leader was not to be fulfilled, as he was assassinated near the end of his third year in office.
www.americanpresident.org /history/johnfkennedy   (309 words)

  
 The Cuban Missile Crisis
Robert Kennedy meets again that evening with Ambassador Dobrynin and an agreement is reached: removal of the missiles from Cuba under UN supervision in return for a public pledge by the US not to invade Cuba and a secret US commitment to remove the missiles from Turkey within a reasonable time.
Kennedy expresses concern that we will have real problems in England and the continent because Khrushchev's proposal seems so reasonable and if we act in Cuba and the USSR responds in Berlin, many people will justify the Soviet move "on the grounds that we were wholly unreasonable.
Kennedy notes that it is difficult to trust the Soviets since they apparently deceived their own ambassador to the US about the missiles.
www.hpol.org /jfk/cuban   (7420 words)

  
 John F Kennedy National Historic Site (National Park Service)
The modest frame house at 83 Beals Street in Brookline was the first home shared by the president's father and mother, Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and represents the social and political beginnings of one of America’s most prominent families.
When John Kennedy was four years old, his parents sold the house and moved to a larger residence nearby, where they lived until 1927.
Kennedy provides visitors with an evocative glimpse of family life in the early Brookline years.
www.nps.gov /jofi   (442 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: PRESIDENT KENNEDY: PROFILE OF POWER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Kennedy was being pulled in all directions, putting too much faith in the CIA and dismissing the criticisms of his newly assembled cabinet.
President Kennedy did not have the easiest presidency imaginable: big issues abroad including Cuba, Vietnam, Berlin, the nuclear arms race and test ban treaties with Russia and the highly contradictory issue of integration at home were all begging for his attention and often at the same time.
Moreover, given the times in which the Kennedy administration lived out its short lifespan, it is a brilliant look at some momentous events and phenomena, from the Berlin crisis of 1961 to the unfolding civil rights movement under the masterful ministrations of firebrand Martin Luther King.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671892894?v=glance   (2543 words)

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